Building Noble Hearts: Inside a Music Teaching Community

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"I Get to Bring Them In" - Season 2, Episode 4 Sep 13, 2018

What is community? How do you find it? Join it? Build it? It’s more than just showing up to a bake sale with brownies from a box, then taking off (though I’ve done this many times). Is it bowling clubs…

Practicing Can Be Hard - Season 2, Episode 3 Aug 01, 2018

Music practice has its highs and lows. Sometimes we reach a state of bliss and flow as we find the perfect balance of competence, challenge, and creativity with our instrument. Or, sometimes we can feel like Sisyphus; over and over…

Greater Than We Would Be on Our Own - Season 2 Episode 2 Jun 17, 2018

Margaret Watts Romney: Gail Johansen and Daniela Gongora are both violinists and teachers, but they’ve made music in vastly different areas. Gail Johansen lives in Fairbanks, Alaska… Gail Johansen: Right now since it is almost the winter solstice, we have less…

"We're All Performers of One Kind or Another" - Season 2, Episode1 May 28, 2018

Welcome back to season two of Building Noble Hearts. I’m Margaret Watts Romney. Here, we take a look at the learning environments in which children, parents, and teachers gain new knowledge, and are also encouraged to become fine individuals. Throughout…

Season Two Trailer May 10, 2018

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes Also on Stitcher and other popular podcast apps. Feed URL: https://suzukiassociation.org/podcasts/building-noble-hearts/ Welcome back to season two of Building Noble Hearts, I’m Margaret Watts Romney. Since the ending of season one last fall, we have loved hearing…

Matsumoto Memoir - Sarah Hersh Oct 03, 2017

We are dipping back to a series of recordings - interviews made a number of years ago with people who studied with Shinichi Suzuki in Japan in decades past. In their voices, hear their curiosity and admiration as they remember their experiences. Also, you can hear the inspiration, wisdom, and gratitude that they’ve kept with them since they left. We’ve heard similar stories from Winifred Crock, Helen Higa, and Mark Bjork about their time studying in Matsumoto with Shinichi Suzuki. So while we are working on the full episodes for Season Two, we will occasionally release these Matsumoto Memoires: simple storytelling, straight from the people who were there... Lightly edited for clarity, without narration. Our story starts in the 70’s, in Ohio where Sarah Hersh was studying music. She loved playing violin, was curious about teaching, and happened to have a lucky locker assignment. Welcome to this Matsumoto Memoir from Sarah Hersh.

Matsumoto Memoir - Mark Bjork Sep 01, 2017

Our story starts in the 60’s, in Minnesota, when Mark Bjork was heading to an intriguing concert. He was going to see a tour group of very young Japanese children playing complex concertos brought to North America by Shinichi Suzuki. Welcome to this Matsumoto Memoir from Mark Bjork.

"Bringing Your Gifts and Feeding a Hunger that the World Has." - Episode 6 Jul 27, 2017

Have you ever felt so focused on the project in front of you that the rest of the world seemed to disappear? Perhaps time stood still? You felt in complete harmony with things around you? This place is a source…

"Skills I didn’t know my child had" - Episode 5 Jul 07, 2017

When is the ideal age to start a music education? Many teachers start students as young as 3 and 4 years old, but Dorothy Jones took to heart Dr. Suzuki’s admonition to focus on the babies. In this episode, we…

Matsumoto Memoir - Helen Higa Jun 23, 2017

Today, we are looking at just one environment created by one teacher, and finding themes that can be applied to good teaching everywhere such as generosity, powerful observation, and warmth. Recently I was introduced to a series of recordings - interviews made a number of years ago with people who studied with Shinichi Suzuki in Japan in decades past. I feel like I’ve had a little trip to Asia in the 1970’s.

"Holding Two Concepts In One's Mind" - Episode 4 Jun 07, 2017

Students, Teachers, Parents, Administrators: we are all interested in growth and change. In this episode, Sarah Bylander Montzka explains the skill we can all use of "holding two concepts in one's mind at the same time"—a skill which can nurture growth in students, organizations, and ourselves.

"It Transcended Us to Another World" - Episode 3 May 23, 2017

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes Also on Stitcher and other popular podcast apps. Feed URL: https://suzukiassociation.org/podcasts/building-noble-hearts/ Music & Clips Radiolab “Sound as Touch” episode Sun Up by Stephen Katz and Derek Snyder Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky played by Alexander Ghindin. Comments…

"It Doesn't Get Much Better Than This" - Episode 2 May 08, 2017

How are in-person and engaged communities created? What do they feel like when you're in them? We interview group class expert and cellist Carey Beth Hockett to hear her answers.

Episode 1 - "You Have to Go On, You Have to Grow" Apr 24, 2017

Who was Dr. Suzuki, why is there a community of teachers following his vision, and what ideas can apply to teachers anywhere? We talk with his former student, Winifred Crock, to answer these questions and more.

Building Noble Hearts - Season 1 Trailer Apr 14, 2017

From the Suzuki Association of the Americas, Building Noble Hearts explores the learning environments where we gain knowledge and also grow personally. These interviews with members of the Suzuki music community can inform good teaching everywhere.

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